Brain/history

Famous quotes containing the words brain and/or history:

    My brain sang
    a rhythm I never dreamt to sing,
    “I will be gay and laugh and sing,
    he is going away.”
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)